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Re-Centring the City (Hardcover): Michal Murawski, Jonathan Bach Re-Centring the City (Hardcover)
Michal Murawski, Jonathan Bach
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Re-Centring the City - Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity (Paperback): Jonathan Bach, Michal Murawski Re-Centring the City - Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity (Paperback)
Jonathan Bach, Michal Murawski
R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Re-Centring the City - Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity (Hardcover): Jonathan Bach, Michal Murawski Re-Centring the City - Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity (Hardcover)
Jonathan Bach, Michal Murawski
R1,468 Discovery Miles 14 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Learning from Shenzhen - China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City (Paperback): Mary Ann O'Donnell,... Learning from Shenzhen - China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City (Paperback)
Mary Ann O'Donnell, Winnie Wong, Jonathan Bach
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China's emerging technology industries. Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more. Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look at one of the world's most dynamic metropolises, this collective history uses the urban case study to explore critical problems and possibilities relevant for modern-day China and beyond.

What Remains - Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Paperback): Jonathan Bach What Remains - Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Paperback)
Jonathan Bach
R683 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R189 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the unsettling effects of these unmoored artifacts on the German present, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with difficult pasts. Bach juxtaposes four sites where the stakes of the everyday appear: products commodified as nostalgia, amateur museums dedicated to collecting everyday life under socialism, the "people's palace" that captured the national imagination through its destruction, and the feared and fetishized Berlin Wall. Moving from the local, the intimate, and the small to the national, the impersonal, and the large, this book's interpenetrating chapters show the unexpected social and political force of the ordinary in the production of memory. What Remains offers a unique vantage point on the workings of the everyday in situations of radical discontinuity, contributing to new understandings of postsocialism and the intricate intersection of material remains and memory.

What Remains - Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Hardcover): Jonathan Bach What Remains - Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Hardcover)
Jonathan Bach
R826 R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Save R137 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the unsettling effects of these unmoored artifacts on the German present, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with difficult pasts. Bach juxtaposes four sites where the stakes of the everyday appear: products commodified as nostalgia, amateur museums dedicated to collecting everyday life under socialism, the "people's palace" that captured the national imagination through its destruction, and the feared and fetishized Berlin Wall. Moving from the local, the intimate, and small to the national, the impersonal, and large, this book's interpenetrating chapters show the unexpected social and political force of the ordinary in the production of memory. What Remains offers a unique vantage point on the workings of the everyday in situations of radical discontinuity, contributing to new understandings of postsocialism and the intricate intersection of material remains and memory.

Re-Centring the City (Paperback): Michal Murawski, Jonathan Bach Re-Centring the City (Paperback)
Michal Murawski, Jonathan Bach
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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